The ultra-large-scale investment has also made the outside world more interested in funding the "Sky Mirror" space gravitational wave detection program.
When the outside world sees that the funder is called the "Natural Science Foundation," the first instinct in their mind is that this funding agency should be a public entity and that the state is allocating funds.
On the importance of naming.
It is impossible for private individuals to make such a large-scale investment, not to mention that private capital is not interested in such basic scientific research projects at all.
Further penetration revealed that this organization had been established not long ago, but had received approval and instructions from senior leaders.
Although public data shows that the Natural Science Foundation is a non-profit organization, everyone firmly believes that this is an allocation from a national unit and the state.
The major academic circles in the country are very excited. Basic scientific research has finally received unprecedented attention. A "Mirror of the Sky" project has invested a budget of 20 billion yuan. The Natural Science Fund will definitely not only invest in the field of astronomy. From this Judging from the name of the institution, it does not only invest in the field of astronomy.
Prior to this, the funding allocated to basic scientific research in China was really small, and the funding for a year was not as good as the budget of a "mirror in the sky."
It’s no wonder that many scientists engaged in basic scientific research were excited when they saw this news.
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The living room of Jingxinju villa.
Fang Hong, who was watching the TV news, turned his attention to one side. Yu Qiu, dressed in business attire, walked slowly towards him. He sat down next to Fang Hong and said, "There is a message from Xincheng University. LIGO scientific cooperation. The organization invited the 'Skyland' project to join their organization, and Metro University asked for our opinions."
Yu Qiu added: "According to Ning Xingqing, Barish, one of the leaders of LIGO, has been working on making LIGO a project for all mankind. He signed an agreement with Virgo in Italy to share all data and jointly publish papers. , including this invitation to the 'Sky Mirror' project."
Yu Qiu paused and continued: "In this way, gravitational waves can be jointly detected at three different locations around the world. Once a gravitational wave is discovered, the specific direction and distance of the gravitational wave can be calculated based on the time difference."
It is worth mentioning that after Barish established the LIGO Scientific Cooperation Organization, he has been inviting scientists in this field from all over the world to participate. Today, the LIGO Scientific Cooperation Organization has 108 units participating from 18 countries.
Fang Hong thought for a while and said with a smile: "It would be disrespectful to accept a warm invitation. But the invitation is not to kill oneself and abolish martial arts, but to use this international cooperation to improve our own self-research system. Since it is a cooperation Then do we have to send some experts over to help us with it and provide some solutions?"
Fang Hong is very happy to accept this invitation. There is no conflict between guarding and playing with them. There are also benefits. After all, the gaps in some aspects need to be faced squarely. If we can gain some advanced experience or equipment through this international cooperation, what can we do? Yes, it’s not a big problem to pay some money.
In fact, Fang Hong is also worried about whether the "Mirror of the Sky" can be successfully completed in 2015. After all, if nothing happens, accidents are easy to happen.
If it cannot be put into operation in 2015, then the honor of being the first to detect gravitational waves can only be won by LIGO. Although it is just an honor, this is what the "Sky Mirror" plan can do in the near future after investing so much money. The only significant result available.
Having honor means the accumulation of knowledge. To put it more down-to-earth, the thing you build will look very good and high-end, and attract more talents to come in. This is the key point. Honor itself is not the core.
If we cooperate with LIGO, we can firmly guarantee that the "Sky Mirror" will also be the honorary winner of the first detection of gravitational waves by humans.
But it is very necessary to be cautious. Science has no borders, scientists have borders, and scientific research projects have borders. The time point of 2015 is very critical. From this moment on, the attitude of the United States has actually begun to change.
Because many major events happened in 2015, the A-share market entered an epic leveraged bull market, and foreign capital was also allowed to come in. The United States and Wall Street planned to take advantage of this bull market, but the result was not As expected, because Big A collapsed too quickly later, and everyone was GG.
Then there was another war in the foreign exchange market, but the international short sellers led by Wall Street were hunting for the renminbi and suffered losses again. They were very angry when they failed to meet the expected harvest plan. Then in 2016, they began to find a way to use the military. The Nanhai crisis was about to break out. The three major fleets of the Republic gathered to deal with this crisis, and the two sides almost came to war.
Finally, the old American gave up and the situation cooled down.
But what followed was that the United States retreated, and after a year or two of pent-up trouble, a "trade war" finally broke out in 2018. Then almost all means except military were used one after another.
Therefore, the current cooperation with LIGO may be in the honeymoon period, but by the time of 2015, when the situation changes dramatically, there is no guarantee that it will be decoupled.
Nowadays, cooperation is cooperation, but guarding against one hand is also an extremely necessary operation.
But at this moment, Yu Qiu got Fang Hong's decision, and immediately nodded and said: "I will inform Xincheng University later. In addition, the Natural Science Foundation has drawn up a new investment direction, which is the application in the field of electromagnetism you mentioned, which involves At the military level."
Fang Hong took the materials she handed and took a look.
This project aims to establish a complete set of electromagnetic weapon systems. The main application is "electromagnetic gun", which can be subdivided into ship-borne electromagnetic gun, vehicle-mounted electromagnetic gun, etc., followed by "electromagnetic gun" and other individual light equipment.
In this field, the United States and the United States were the first to play, and they could not lag behind at home. After playing around, they discovered that the United States and the United States were fishing for fish, and the country was serious about researching it. As a result, it later came to lead the world.
It is worth mentioning that this situation is not an isolated case. The main reason is that from time to time the United States comes up with a very high-end new concept to scare people, saying that it has been put into experiments and will be realized soon, which scares the rabbits on the other side of the ocean and hurries to start. Do it.
One dares to bluff, and the other dares to believe it. Not only did he believe it, but he also started doing it seriously. As he continued to do it, he felt like he found out that it was really the case. The one who did it became even more convinced. When he looked back, he realized that the old American was lagging behind. .
Technically speaking, electromagnetic weapons do have the ability to change history. The ultra-high speed and ultra-long range of the electromagnetic gun are miraculous in hitting aircraft or intercepting supersonic missiles.
However, there is still a key technology node to realize the application of electromagnetic weapons, and that is the battery.
Nowadays, battery capacity is a big difficulty. After a few rounds, it will run out of energy, which is useless.
Once a breakthrough is made in battery technology, it will be self-evident for the development of the new energy field. Fang Hong has decided to move the expansion of this civilian field to Ningde Times or ATL Company, and has already made arrangements in advance.
"Who are the cooperative units?" Fang Hong asked looking at the materials.
"The main cooperating unit is Harbin Institute of Technology, followed by 22 universities and research institutes including Hebei Artillery Engineering Institute to conduct electromagnetic launch research. The Natural Science Foundation provides full funding support for project research. The current initial budget is 3.7 billion." Yu Qiu He said methodically: "In addition, Xincheng University is also involved and will establish a non-ferrous metal research institute to take on the research and development of high-temperature superconducting films."
After Qunxing Capital introduced the national team organization, many things were done much more smoothly. Fang Hong couldn't help but nodded, closed the document and reported in a concise and concise manner: "Then allocate funds."
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